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Sarah Platanitis is an English and journalism teacher at Holyoke High
School, an inner-city public school in Holyoke, Mass.  After reviving
the school's award-winning newspaper, The Herald, from a multiple year
publishing hiatus, Platanitis was chosen as one of 35 journalism
educators from across the United States to participate in the
prestigious Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of
Missouri-Columbia.  Platanitis served as an advisor for media literacy
teaching strategies alongside Nancy Freeman, Missouri's journalism
teacher of the year.  Platanitis worked as a media literacy consultant
for PBS and as a journalist and photographer before becoming a
teacher. Platanitis holds a bachelor^Ys degree in English literature
from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a master^Ys degree in
English literature from Western New England College.  She has lived
and worked abroad in Spain and Japan and is the owner of Anselblue
Design Studio.